Worst movie of 2016?

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What is the worst movie released this year? I can accept some December movies from last year. If you thought Episode VII was the worst movie of 2016, go for it.

I’m guessing most of us avoid movies we expect to be bad, but we still run into them.

Mine?

London Has Fallen - I like the the first one. Really, I think it’s great. This sequel was terrible. And unfinished. No, I mean that the CG-helicopters are literally unfinished special effects. And it pretty much has a racist portrayal for a villain. This movie was as bad as Die Hard 5, and that is saying something.

Secret of Life of Pets - Took my kids to see it. They have never asked to re-watch it now it is on DVD. Boring. Unfunny. Very obviously a lame attempt to bring in kids. Not a clever or smart movie at all.

**Synchronicity **- A Netflix release in 2016. Just terrible. I admit we turned this one off. It felt like a movie made by one man who also stars in it. It isn’t, but a total crappy movie. I won’t name it the worst since it has no budget, but it isn’t a talented movie.

My Scientology Movie - This is not a bad, bad movie. I am a huge Louis Theroux movie and this is his only feature film and his absolutely worst documentary. He’s one of my favorite people, but this was a total misfire.

Jason Bourne - Totally unnecessary. Does nothing interesting. Waste of time and money. Nothing ever beat the Bourne Supremacy.

What about you?

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Without a doubt, the film I hated most was A Man Called Ove (Sweden’s submission for the Foreign Language Film Oscar and based, apparently, on a popular book unread by me). Take all the hoariest Cranky-Old-Man-Finds-New-Outlook-Via-Quirky-Neighbors cliches you can imagine, and then layer on an endless number of totally gratuitous (and phenomenally sappy) flashbacks, and it resulted in the most unendurable experience in the cinema I had this year.

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Allegiant - the third film in the Divergent series. I don’t know why I keep watching these. They’ve all been crap.

The 5th Wave - another post-apocalyptic teen movie. Terrible.

Star Trek Beyond - the new ST movies continue to disappoint.

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The new Ghostbusters. Complete shit. Lazy as hell writing. Every “joke” was obvious and stupid. I only made it halfway through before I gave up.

Not exactly worst but overrated in the sense that I had high hopes going in that were dashed: The Lobster was a waste of two hours but at least it tried something new and was ambitious.

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Wow, I forgot about it. Yeah, it was actually shockingly bad. I was hoping it’d be good and I was stunned. Just total silence watching it.

My wife remembered one more we saw.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House - total snoozefest. Nothing interesting ever happens. Ever. Hated this movie.

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The Forest - I’m a huge horror fan, so I give them a lot of slack, but this was just bad, even by my horror movie standards.

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Batman vs. Superman.

Mic dropped.

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Came in to say this. It may not be the worst movie this year, but it’s the worst one I saw. It was a flaming bag of gravitas left on your front doorstep.

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Ironically, I watched this on On Demand expecting it to suck balls*, but I wound up enjoying it.

I’ll second The Fifth Wave and The Forest though.

*No idea why I would spend good money on something I expected to suck. I have issues I guess.

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Movies I saw this year that I did not care for:

Alice Through the Looking Glass: pointless, aimless sequel to a not very good movie.

Suicide Squad: the producers of this film clearly watched Guardians of the Galaxy then thought “DC should have their own fun action-comedy with an ensemble cast” and threw this piece of shit together. Very poor “me too!” film.

Ghostbusters: there was potential here, very easily could have written itself into a decent film by simply having one of them be someone’s daughter coming back home and starting up the family business again, but apparently they left all creativity and originality at the door and just lazily [del]remade[/del] sorry, “rebooted” the original film with a female cast. YAWN

Hail, Caesar: a very well-made film, but this just struck me as more Hollywood-self-ass-kissing bullshit, made to pat each other on the back and show other Hollywood people and pretentious film students how deep they are in the Hollywood film culture. Hated it.

The Angry Birds Movie: a paint-by-numbers animated film based on a mobile game. Terrible, even for that.

Zoolander 2: pointless, aimless sequel that’s at least a decade late.

Batman Vs Superman: pointless, convoluted, overly long, poorly written excuse just to introduce Wonder Woman and Sub-Mariner.

Hardcore Henry: frenetic, vomit-inducing, 1st person feature. As close to zero plot as a movie with a plot can be. Was interesting for about 10 minutes.

Bad Moms: terrible, stupid movie that delivered on absolutely nothing of the very little it promised.

Dirty Grandpa: terrible, stupid movie that delivered on absolutely nothing of the very little it promised.

Gods of Egypt: pointless effects movie. I remember nothing about it except how much it sucked.
Of those, I’d say it’s a tie between the last three.
And I didn’t see it, but I’m willing to bet just about anything that Warcraft was… not good.

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I am going to make every one of you sit down and watch Gods of Egypt and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 back-to-back.

And I’d like to remind everyone that we all have yet to see Monster Trucks.

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Monster Trucks is a 2017 release.

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adds Quimby, Mahaloth and DCnDC to list of people whose judgment cannot be trusted

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Because… you thought Ghostbusters was a triumph of modern comedic filmmaking? :rolleyes:

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I thought it was funny, yes.

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Hey now, I actually enjoyed this one! My wife, however, agrees with you 100%.

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I don’t usually watch movies I think are going to be bad, so I haven’t seen some of the truly bad movies that came out this year. Of the ones I’ve seen, I thought Suicide Squad was probably the worst.

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I had the good sense to avoid most of the movies in this thread. I only see in the theaters 12-15 movies a year, so I try to pick ones I’m pretty sure will be good. Or Marvel superhero movies (which almost always are also good).

So the worst move I saw? Well, I was disappointed by Arrival, but I’d be hard pressed to say that it was a bad movie. I did watch Ted 2 on streaming, but I don’t think that was a 2016 release, so I’m kind of stumped.

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Even worse, I liked Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad :slight_smile:

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I didn’t see BvS but I thought Suicide Squad was a terrific popcorn flick but I went to see it at the second run theater and I’m far more generous when tickets only cost me two bucks.